December 2018: Highlining at -20° in ALASKA

What better time of the year to do some highlines in Alaska than in in Winter? And what better team for such a challenging mission than Friedi Kühne, Mia Noblet and Aidan Williams.
This was a truly unique slackline adventure certainly the coldest highlining these guys did so far. Within one week they set up and walked slacklines over icy cold, halfway frozen rivers, between snowy peaks, and even over an abandoned gold dredge, which they walked under the stars. Thanks to the support of the Red Fox Outdoor Equipment they didn’t freeze during this crazy project. Let these pictures by Aidan Williams speak for themselves.

November 2018: Highlining in the desert of Utah

Friedi kicked off November 2018 by meeting up with his good friends and slacklining legends Andy Lewis, Spencer Seabrooke and Mia Noblet in Moab, Utah. They set out to the famous Valley of the Gods, where they rigged and walked a 500m long tower to tower highline, beating the previous US-American highline record of 480m, which they had set themselves the year before.

Just one week later, they beat the same record again, this time with an 880m long highline at the Fruitbowl, near Moab Utah. Friedi became the first to walk that line and then later on walked almost the entire distance blindfolded, falling only 10m from the end.

The team celebrated their achievements right where they were, at GGBY at the Fruitbowl, the biggest slackline festival in the world. Together with Slackline US and powered by Balance Community, they rigged up the whole place with over 20 highlines, and celebrated with a community of over 500 outdoor enthusiasts, all coming together in desert to highline, basejump, and enjoy life.

October 2018: FREE SOLO in Yosemite

In October 2018, Friedi and his team of friends Aidan Williams, Lukas Irmler, Ryan Jenks, Kimberly Weglin, Kyle Lovett and Zollie Goodman went on a two week long trip to the world famous Yosemite Valley in California, USA. They set up and walked eight of the world’s most spectacular and most alpine highlines. Friedi got the first ascent of a 296m long new line at Taft Point, which is currently the longest line ever rigged in the entire valley. He also became the third person in the world to free solo both the 15m and 35m long highlines that lead up to the famous Lost Arrow Spire, a granite pillar peaking at almost 1000m above the valley bottom.

NEW HIGHLINE WORLD RECORD: 1.9km in Québec, Canada

The same team from Norway made another attempt to break the highline world record – this time over an abandoned mine in Asbestos, Québec. Friedi and five other athletes managed to walk the entire 1900m without falling and now share the new highline, as well as slackline world record. With a walking time of 1:25h Friedi was the second fastest out of the six athletes.

August 2018: 2.8km - A crossing of the longest Slackline ever set up

In August 2018 a team of the best Slackliners in the world went to the island of Senja in Northern Norway to set up the world’s longest Slackline so far. Friedi crossed the entire line and walked a continuous 2200m before falling due to heavy winds, beating the previous tightrope distance world record of 2169m. Nobody managed to walk the whole line without falling, but it was the biggest project and achievement in the history of Slacklining. Get an impression from Friedi’s crossing of this monster of a line in the video below.